Any suggestions for a good free basic AV program for XP with good detection rates, that's also easy on system resources?
https://msfn.org/board/topic/175514-microsoft-security-essentials-and-windows-xp/?page=20 ClamWin + Clam Sentinel is also very light.
Because it still works as I need and it's enough for me...is it not good reason? BTW...I don't think real-time AV is needed...I'm using XP for years without such app but instead using monitoring/restrictions apps in combo with Shadow Defender.
It was discontinued, is no longer updated with security updates or supported at all as of almost 4 years ago. "Works for you" is a little silly if you are posting on an AV forum, but hey, whatever floats your boat I guess.
It works with all the bugs and security problems, well done. I think it's time to close this thread because it's getting ridiculous.
idd - no antivirus or any other security suite is capable to fix or close such amount of open system flaws. complete futile to ask for more security.
Eset ver. 9 is the only one that has XP support. The current Eset ver. is 11. Many of the ver. 11 enhancements such as ransomware protection don't exist in ver. 9. So you will have to create your own HIPS rules to handle ransomware threat vectors. https://support.eset.com/kb3507/
It is not free though. I think as Ichito mentioned XP + Shadow Defender is enough as long as sensitive operations like banking online are avoided. My wife has been using XP and SD on her running machine for years without a single instance of malware... Edit, SD is also not free, but a life license well worth it.
What ever you get - turn off all unneeded BS! XPs simply do not handle all the garbage in some AV these days - particularly the suites. ESET is good and AVAST is OK you trun off a lot of junk. You can cover firewall and HIPS with the light Private Firewall - yeah unsupported. Works though. Unlike some of the crap out there that eats CPU & RAM. Just to be safer though - log off the Net when you are done. FWIW in Dec I picked up a 64 Win 7 machine with 8 GB and 140 HD with 19 inch monitor for 150 $
I know it's not an AV, but Comodo FW still supports XP. And just use on-demand scanners time to time... Supported OS: XP 32bit, Vista/Win7/Win8/Win8.1/Win10 32 bit & 64 bit
